Curriculum Vitae
CARLA FILIPA SIMÕES HENRIQUES
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- CARLA FILIPA SIMÕES HENRIQUES
Citation names
- Simões-Henriques, Carla
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 001D-1005-4FE6
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1030-6065
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlasimoeshenriques/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2019/09 - 2027
Ongoing
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Medicine (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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2018/03/01 - 2024/11/25
Concluded
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Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
"The genetic architecture of social and asocial learning in Drosophila melanogaster" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2019/07/01 - 2019/07/05
Concluded
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Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies - short course. (Outros)
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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2019/02 - 2019/02
Concluded
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The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics (GTPB) - Entry Level Bioinformatics (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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2018/10/01 - 2018/10/04
Concluded
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IGC's Practical Course on Laboratory Animal Science in Mouse and Zebrafish. (Following EU recommendations for Functions A
+ D in Laboratory Animal Science). (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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2018/09 - 2018/09
Concluded
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SPCAL 20h Theoretical Course on Laboratory Animal Sciences - ONLINE (Following FELASA recommendations for Category B) (Outros)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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2015/09 - 2017/09
Concluded
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Biomedical Research (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Gender dimorphism of microglia morphology: adenosine and testosterone as putative modulators in transgender microglia experiments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18/20 |
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2011/09 - 2015/09
Concluded
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Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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13/20 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/10/31 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2023/09/01 - 2024/08/31 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/03/01 - 2023/08/31 | Research Trainee (Research) | Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal |
| Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/10/31 - Current | CiNTech - technological hub for innovation, translation and industrialization of complex injectable drugs
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2023/09/01 - 2024/08/31 | DietNObrain - Acoplamento neurovascular como biomarcador e alvo para melhoria cognitiva no envelhecimento e na demência vascular
através de intervenção dietética inovadora suportada pela bioactivação de nitrato a óxido nítrico: um estudo translacional
2022.05454.PTDC
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2022/05 - 2022/07 | The social fly: genetic architecture for social learning neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster A mosca social: arquitectura
genética dos circuitos neurais associados à aprendizagem social em Drosophila melanogaster
Provided by PTCRIS: COVID/BD/152638/2022
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/03 - 2022/04 | The social fly: genetic architecture for social learning neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster A mosca social: arquitectura
genética dos circuitos neurais associados à aprendizagem social em Drosophila melanogaster
Provided by PTCRIS: PD/BD/138178/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2016/06 - 2017/07 |
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007440
CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000008: BrainHealth 2020
Master Student
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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Artistic / Performance
| Artistic exhibition |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2022/07 | A specialized genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster. | International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress 2022
International Society for Behavioral Ecology (Stockholm, Sweden)
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| 2022/07 | A specialized genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster | European Conference on Behavioural Biology: ECBB 22 – ALL OF LIFE IS SOCIAL
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (Groningen, Netherlands)
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| 2022/04 | A specialized genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster | 12th ITQB Nova PhD Students' Meeting
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (Oeiras, Portugal)
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| 2021/12 | Functional specialization of social and asocial learnings in Drosophila melanogaster | XVII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology
Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Online)
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| 2021/10 | Functional specialization of social learning in Drosophila melanogaster | XVIII Conference of the Portuguese Society of Ethology- SPE 2021
Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia (Online)
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| 2020/12 | The genetic architecture of social and asocial learning in Drosophila melanogaster | XVI Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva
Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Online)
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| 2019/05 | Genetic architecture for social learning in Drosophila melanogaster | XVI Meeting of Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | Gender-specific organizational and activational effects of adenosine A2A receptor in microglia morphology in the prefrontal cortex | IV Biochemists National Meeting
Associação Nacional de Bioquímicos (ANBIOQ) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | Organizational effect of testosterone: masculinizing anxious-like behaviour and microglia morphology in the prefrontal cortex | III Scientific meeting of the Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association
Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | In vitro effects of dexamethasone and betamethasone on microglia: structure-activity correlation study | III Scientific meeting of the Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association
Chemistry Student's Nucleus of the Coimbra Academic Association (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | Masculinizing female anxious-like behaviour: organizational instructions in transgender experiments | XLVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Portuguese Society for Pharmacology (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | Effects of Dexamethasone and Betamethasone on brain microglia: structure-activity correlation study | XLVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Portuguese Society for Pharmacology (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2017/05 | Chronic blockade of adenosine A2A receptors: gender-specific reprogramming of microglia morphology in the PFC | XV Portuguese Society for Neuroscience meeting
Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2017/02 | Gender determination of microglia morphology in the prefrontal cortex: born similar, age differently | XLVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Portuguese Society for Pharmacology (Coimbra, Portugal)
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2017/10/09 - 2017/10/09 | Assistance in a theoretical lecture of the discipline Biology and Physiology of Aging, at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Coimbra. | (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2019/02 - 2019/06 | Tuition of the student Sara Santos from the BSc in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, in the context of a laboratorial rotation for the the curricular unit Oriented Study. | Sara Santos |
| 2019/02 - 2019/06 | Tuition of the student Gonçalo Silva from the BSc in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, in the context of a laboratorial rotation for the the curricular unit Oriented Study. | Gonçalo Silva |
| 2018/02 - 2018/02 | Tuition of students in a Laboratorial Rotation related to the Master in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. | Group of students |
| 2017/09 - 2017/10 | Tuition of students in the curricular unit Cell Regulation from the Master in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. | Group of students |
| 2016/06 - 2017/07 | Tuition of the student Francisco Ferrer in the context of the curricular unit Applied Research IV, from the 3rd year of the Integrated Master in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. | Francisco Ferrer |
Distinctions
Award
| 2021 | Prize Vitor Almada: best oral communication at XVIII Conference of the Portuguese Society of Ethology- SPE 2021.
Portuguese Society of Ethology, Portugal
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| 2018 | Best oral communication at IV Biochemists National Meeting.
Associação Nacional de Bioquímicos (ANBIOQ), Portugal
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| 2008 | Best student prize of the 2nd and 3rd cycles' school of Avelar in the 9th grade. Avelar, Leiria, Portugal.
Municipality of Ansião, Portugal
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| 2008 | Best student prize of the 2nd and 3rd cycles' schools of the municipality of Ansião in the 9th grade. Ansião, Leiria, Portugal.
Rotary Club de Ansião, Portugal
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